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Real-world data often exhibits a long-tailed distribution, in which head classes occupy most of the data, while tail classes only have very few samples. Models trained on long-tailed datasets have poor adaptability to tail classes and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Qiong Chen , Tianlin Huang , Geren Zhu , Enlu Lin

Deep learning algorithms are well-known to have a propensity for fitting the training data very well and often fit even outliers and mislabeled data points. Such fitting requires memorization of training data labels, a phenomenon that has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Vitaly Feldman , Chiyuan Zhang

The problem of deep long-tailed learning, a prevalent challenge in the realm of generic visual recognition, persists in a multitude of real-world applications. To tackle the heavily-skewed dataset issue in long-tailed classification, prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Wenxiang Xu , Yongcheng Jing , Linyun Zhou , Wenqi Huang , Lechao Cheng , Zunlei Feng , Mingli Song

Real-world datasets often exhibit long-tailed distributions, where a few dominant "Head" classes have abundant samples while most "Tail" classes are severely underrepresented, leading to biased learning and poor generalization for the Tail.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Mahdiyar Molahasani , Michael Greenspan , Ali Etemad

Deep neural networks frequently suffer from performance degradation when the training data is long-tailed because several majority classes dominate the training, resulting in a biased model. Recent studies have made a great effort in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Mengke Li , Yiu-ming Cheung , Juyong Jiang

Long-tailed datasets, where head classes comprise much more training samples than tail classes, cause recognition models to get biased towards the head classes. Weighted loss is one of the most popular ways of mitigating this issue, and a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Saptarshi Sinha , Hiroki Ohashi

Despite recent advancements in out-of-distribution (OOD) detection, most current studies assume a class-balanced in-distribution training dataset, which is rarely the case in real-world scenarios. This paper addresses the challenging task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Tong Wei , Bo-Lin Wang , Min-Ling Zhang

Long-tailed imbalance distribution is a common issue in practical computer vision applications. Previous works proposed methods to address this problem, which can be categorized into several classes: re-sampling, re-weighting, transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Pengxiao Han , Changkun Ye , Jieming Zhou , Jing Zhang , Jie Hong , Xuesong Li

In this work, we tackle the challenging problem of long-tailed image recognition. Previous long-tailed recognition approaches mainly focus on data augmentation or re-balancing strategies for the tail classes to give them more attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Weide Liu , Zhonghua Wu , Yiming Wang , Henghui Ding , Fayao Liu , Jie Lin , Guosheng Lin

We propose GradTail, an algorithm that uses gradients to improve model performance on the fly in the face of long-tailed training data distributions. Unlike conventional long-tail classifiers which operate on converged - and possibly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Zhao Chen , Vincent Casser , Henrik Kretzschmar , Dragomir Anguelov

Deep-learning-based models are increasingly used to emulate scientific simulations to accelerate scientific research. However, accurate, supervised deep learning models require huge amount of labelled data, and that often becomes the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yi Heng Lim , Muhammad Firmansyah Kasim

Real-world visual recognition requires handling the extreme sample imbalance in large-scale long-tailed data. We propose a "divide&conquer" strategy for the challenging LVIS task: divide the whole data into balanced parts and then apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Xinting Hu , Yi Jiang , Kaihua Tang , Jingyuan Chen , Chunyan Miao , Hanwang Zhang

Main challenges in long-tailed recognition come from the imbalanced data distribution and sample scarcity in its tail classes. While techniques have been proposed to achieve a more balanced training loss and to improve tail classes data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Bo Liu , Haoxiang Li , Hao Kang , Nuno Vasconcelos , Gang Hua

Real-world data often follows a long-tailed distribution, where a few head classes occupy most of the data and a large number of tail classes only contain very limited samples. In practice, deep models often show poor generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Haolin Pan , Yong Guo , Mianjie Yu , Jian Chen

Long-tailed distributions in image recognition pose a considerable challenge due to the severe imbalance between a few dominant classes with numerous examples and many minority classes with few samples. Recently, the use of large generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Guangxi Li , Yinsheng Song , Mingkai Zheng

To effectively use large language models (LLMs) for real-world queries, it is imperative that they generalize to the long-tail distribution, i.e. rare examples where models exhibit low confidence. In this work, we take the first step…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Huihan Li , Yuting Ning , Zeyi Liao , Siyuan Wang , Xiang Lorraine Li , Ximing Lu , Wenting Zhao , Faeze Brahman , Yejin Choi , Xiang Ren

Anomaly detection (AD) aims to identify defective images and localize their defects (if any). Ideally, AD models should be able to detect defects over many image classes; without relying on hard-coded class names that can be uninformative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Chih-Hui Ho , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Nuno Vasconcelos

3D perception plays an essential role for improving the safety and performance of autonomous driving. Yet, existing models trained on real-world datasets, which naturally exhibit long-tail distributions, tend to underperform on rare and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Mahmut Yurt , Xin Ye , Yunsheng Ma , Jingru Luo , Abhirup Mallik , John Pauly , Burhaneddin Yaman , Liu Ren

In real-world scenarios, where knowledge distributions exhibit long-tail. Humans manage to master knowledge uniformly across imbalanced distributions, a feat attributed to their diligent practices of reviewing, summarizing, and correcting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Qihao Zhao , Yalun Dai , Shen Lin , Wei Hu , Fan Zhang , Jun Liu

One of the most profound challenges of modern machine learning is performing well on the long-tail of rare and underrepresented features. Large general-purpose models are trained for many tasks, but work best on high-frequency use cases.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Daniel D'souza , Julia Kreutzer , Adrien Morisot , Ahmet Üstün , Sara Hooker